How Did my RAM Stick go bad? (Crutial Ballstix DDR4 2x4)

[ZombieKiller115x]

Hey guys, I'm incredibly curious as to why or how my RAM stick failed, I purchased them as a pair last year (March 24th, 2017), (only ONE stick failed FYI) and only a couple or so days ago I got some memory errors, blue screen of death, or Chrome crashes, got memtest running and saw over 60,000 errors on one stick, other one was 0.

Specs:
Core i7-8700
Zotac GTX 1060 (6gb)
EVGA 500w PSU
Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

 

[Darkbreeze]

It happens. Not often, but it happens. It could be a result of many things. Improper installation, too much voltage, faulty motherboard or just manufacturing defect.

Practically all consumer memory has a lifetime warranty so as long as you have a record of your purchase invoice you should have no trouble with an RMA to get it replaced. Before I did that though, I'd try the other module in the same slot that module is installed in, and run Memtest to see if perhaps it's the slot and not the module.

 

[ZombieKiller115x]

I did, I tried all slots, ran memtest for 1.5 hours each on all 4 slots, results are virtually the same with the 60k errors.

I replaced the faulty ram with the other stick to see if it's the slot (first slot) and no errors occurred, it's the stick itself is the problem.

I already ordered the Trident Z. 8x16gb (Who doesn't like RGB) to replace my 4x8 (I guess now a single 4gb stick)

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, like I said, it happens. If anything goes wrong with one of the new sticks, I'd immediately contact the motherboard manufacturer and ask them to not only replace the motherboard, but maybe try to get the memory funded as well. At least the first stick that went bad. Might not go anywhere, but worth trying if the board turns out to be faulty. Likely though, it's just a bad stick of memory.

Damn bad luck.

Also, I'd RMA the stick of memory to Crucial.